Nighttown

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With Nighttown, playwright and director Susan Mosakowski takes on a particularly difficult task--namely, keeping an audience engaged through an hour-and-a-half of conversation between two mental patients--and does not quite succeed. But there is much of interest in this chamber piece, which takes us inside a Dublin asylum and, simultaneously, inside the cracked imaginations of two of its guests. One of them is named Caesar McCarthy (Michael Ryan) but he thinks he's James Joyce; the other is Leo Kittle (Matthew Maguire) and he doesn't know what to think--especially since McCarthy is determined to make him over as Leo Bloom, the hero of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.

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